Description

The Pawn is a text based adventure game released by Magnetic Scrolls in 1985 to wide acclaim.

Set in the mythical world of Kerovnia, it is an amusing and complex tale. You, the player, are there by total accident. The Adventurer is supposed to rescue his Princess, not you. Can you escape, back to your own world? If so, not easily and certainly not without leaving an indelible mark on the history of Kerovina and its somewhat unusual inhabitants.

Magnetic Scrolls was a British video game developer active between 1984 and 1990. A pioneer of audio-visually elaborate text adventure games. It was one of the two largest and most acclaimed interactive fiction developers of the 1980s.

The original game has been remastered and improved by Stand Games (with permission) and adapted for mobile. No need to type anymore! (but you can if you want).

Features include:

* Touch-Text CommandsTap "links" in the text to perform commands without typing.

* Sidebar InventoryAll your things are conveniently listed in a sidebar. Drag and drop to use them or to apply them to things in the main text.

* Dynamic MapNo need to draw out the map, we do it for you. As you explore the game, the map page will expand. Tap any previous room on the map to "fast-goto" that location.

* Compass RoseQuickly navigate with a handy compass gadget. It shows the available exits at all times, simply tap to move.

The new facilities make the original game fun and entertaining to play on modern mobiles. No more dead ends; the remaster has multi-level undo, save/load game and automatic undo from dying!

There's also the original artwork and newly reworked music score (Thanks John!)

Help support the Remastering ProjectAfter fees, we get only about 70p (50cents) from each sale. We're working to restore original game content, source code and documents and hopefully to develop and share new IF technologies. See our blog (https://strandgames.com/blog) for details of our progress.

Thanks for your support!The Strand Team

Find out more at http://strandgames.com

See also:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pawnhttp://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=a3ege93gjofe5q0mhttp://msmemorial.if-legends.org/games.htm/pawn.php

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Martin Hansen

Played this on the Amiga back in the day and was pretty stoked to see it available on Android. It works really, really well I must say! Feeling pretty nostalgic right now :)

Emil Schweickerdt

Excellent remastering of a classic!

butfukegypt

This is exactly what I remembered as a kid and I'm happy that I don't have to fire up an old Commodore 64/128 to play it.

User reviews

Martin Hansen July 27, 2017

Played this on the Amiga back in the day and was pretty stoked to see it available on Android. It works really, really well I must say! Feeling pretty nostalgic right now :)